2017 Reading List
2 min readDec 15, 2016
I will add reviews as I start reading things from this list:
- Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspired Innovation (Tim Brown)
- Born a Crime (Tervor Noah)
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in American City (Matthew Desmond)
- Hamilton: The Revolution (Lin-Manuel Miranda)
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Atul Gawande)
- The Only Rule Is It Has To Work: Our Wild Experiment in Building a New Kind of Baseball Team (Ben Lindenbergh)
- Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (Jane Mayer)
- The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Andrew Hunt)
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Robert B. Cialdini)
- Code: An Essay (Paul Ford)
- And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East (Richard Engel)
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Ashlee Vance)
- The Connected Company (Dave Gray)
- Everyday Zen: Love and work (Charlotte Joko Beck)
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Cal Newport)
- Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers (Gabriel Weinberg)
- Adnan’s Story: The Search for Truth and Justice after Serial (Rabia Chaudry)
- Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You (John Warrillow)
- The Greatest Salesman in the World (Og Mandino)
- Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)
- Ego Is The Enemy (Ryan Holiday)
- Grit: Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success (Angela Duckworth)
- Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging (Junger Sebastian)
- The Underground Railroad (Colson Whitehead)
- Marketing, A Love Story: How to Matter to Your Customers (Bernadette Jiwa)
- The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (Frederick Brooks Jr.)
- Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (Nir Eyal)
- The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution & Future of the Human Animal (Jared Diamond)
- The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Atul Gawande)
- The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Clayton M. Christensen)
If you have any suggestions about adding/removing books to the above list, definitely let me know. :)